I was too busy on Friday to conclude Film Score Week (sorry) so I am going to finish it up today with this cover of the Overture from The Jungle Book by Norwegian jazz act THE HELGE LIEN TRIO.
Strongly influenced by jazz pianist Bill Evans, Helge Lien puts a tremendous amount of effort, along with the rest of his trio, Frode Berg (bass) and Knut Aalefjær (drums), in creating complex harmonies as colourful layers of tones and melodies. They tackled Overture for the Japanese jazz Disney tribute MODAL JAZZ LOVES DISNEY
.Originally, Terry Gilkyson was brought on board to write all the music to the Jungle Book but Disney, unimpressed at how dark the music sounded, turned to the Sherman Brothers for help. He instructed them to NOT read the novel in order to get a fresh approach to the songs based on the characters the staff had already developed. The result is the music you hear in the film. One Gilkyson song did make the final cut - the upbeat and cheerful Bare Necessities.
3 comments:
Wasn't the Score Music of the film written by George Bruns instead of the Sherman Brothers, who wrote only the songs?
By the way, I read the novel and I don't think, it is really that dark (as always mentioned when speaking of Gilkysons songs.)
Oh, yeah! Thanks for that correction, Andy!
Also, I think maybe 'serious' is a better word than 'dark'. I used 'dark' simply because Disney's version is 'light'. But you're right, the book isn't all that 'dark'. It has dark moments, but I wouldn't call it a dark book.
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